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Old 05-31-2005 | 05:28 PM
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bluestratos
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Default RE: ThunderTiger Rare Bear

Nice pics! I am at the same stage, just buttoning it up, putting on the canopy and decals over the next few days. I am using the same onboard glow ignition system.. Nelson I believe it is. I changed the wings to bolt on from the inside instead of the set screw as I have heard of some people having trouble removing the wings after a while. I am using the 150 saito inverted so only a bit of the rocker covers shows from below the cowl. I used robart pneumatic retarcts with the straigh robo struts while retaining the coil for added protection. I really beefed up the landing gear mounts as they are really bad as shipped from the factory. I had to move the fire wall back 3/4" to get the spinner to go where it is suppose to, other wise the carb interfered with the engine mount. I also changed the wheels to dave brown treaded 3 1/4" lights to fit the wheel well. Im not crazy about the rear tail wheel spring mounting but I will see how she ground handles.
This arf has taken me longer to build than most of my kits, lol. But she is pretty. I am using the 14MZ radio with it with high torque servos on the tail group and semi high torque servos on the wings. To avoid the fuel tank, I mounted a high torque mini servo on the fire wall to run the throttle. I kept all the wieght forward including the air reservoir, the retract servo and the reciever. Everything is mounted on top of the fuel tank but are removable with a few screws.

Thanks again for the great photos, I still cannont figure out how to add pics on this forum.